The Heir Apparent
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 726
ISBN-13: 9781400062553
Copyright date: 2013
Description: "Chronicles the eventful life of Queen Victoria's firstborn son, the quintessential black sheep of Buckingham Palace, who matured into as wise and effective a monarch as Britain has ever seen."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review and the Boston Globe.

"Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, a member of The Random House Group, London, in 2012, as Bertie: A Life of Edward VII." - T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Family tree of Edward VII; title: Family tree of Alexandra; title: Introduction : The eighty-nine steps; title: Part one : Youth.; title: Victoria and Albert 1841; title: "Our poor strange boy" 1841-1856; title: "Neither fish nor flesh" 1856-1860; title: Bertie's fall 1861; title: Marriage 1861-63; title: "Totally totally unfit ... for ever becoming king" 1863-65; title: Alix's knee 1865-67; title: Marlborough House and Harriett Mordaunt 1868-70; title: Annus horribilis 1870-71; title: Part two : Expanding middle.; title: Resurrection? 1871-75; title: India 1875-76; title: The Aylesford scandal 1876; title: Lillie Langtry 1877-78; title: Prince Hal 1878-81; title: Prince of pleasure 1881-87; title: William 1887-89; title: Scandal 1889-90; title: Nemesis 1890-92; title: Daisy Warwick 1892-96; title: "We are all in God's hands" 1897-1901; title: Part three : King.; title: King Edward the Caresser 1901-02; title: "Edward the Confessor number two" 1902; title: King Edward the peacemaker 1903-05; title: Uncle of Europe 1905-07; title: King Canute 1908-09; title: King of Trumps 1909-10; title: The people's king : March-May 1910; title: Conclusion; title: Afterword : Bertie and the biographers; title: About the author